In a 99% Invisible episode, Avery Trufelman stated that America’s 19th-century preoccupation with the self and self-help was reflected in the fact that Webster …

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What people believe about their and others’ beliefs, as well as how those beliefs are expressed, can dramatically affect decisions: groups can come to decisions …

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Some researchers of user-generated content make an effort to disguise the public comments they quote so as to not bring additional scrutiny to the comments …

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Yesterday I was surprised to see widespread headlines that Wikipedia’s “first edit” was being auctioned as a NFT. That wasn’t right, and I …

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1. In your paper, you wrote: “Quotations are slightly altered to reduce chances of deductive disclosure of individuals who made the posts or comments.” Is this …

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This past year I’ve been working on how to treat online sources in research reports. When researchers disguise their sources, is it effective or …

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I had been vacillating on posting a draft because I wasn’t sure whether to call it: masking or disguising. Last week, while working on …

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I’ve published three books with an academic press, and with each I strove to be accessible to general readers. The last, Hacking Life, was …

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I use pandoc—and its flavor of markdown—to create my webpages, slides, PDFs, and Word files. Ironically, the only place I don’t use …

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Though people have always hacked their lives (e.g., Ben Franklin is claimed as an early example), the birth of “life hacking” is dated as …

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